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Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873 : vol.1 |
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T.B.K. Yusuf Kadir, and nephew, Ali Arslán, issued from the city with an army of forty
thousand men, and took the field against them.
Bocta Rashid, the champion of the infidel army, came forward for combat,
and Ali Arslán, on the side of the Faithful, advanced to meet him. Each was
attended by his supporters, and as they closed in combat, the two armies joined in
battle. A hard fight ensued till nightfall, when the Musalmáns were forced to
retire within the city, though they sent five hundred idolators to hell, in return for a
few Musalmáns of note, who left the scene of their earthly troubles for the joys and
delights of Paradise.
The battle was resumed next day, under the lead of Yúsuf Kadir, and with
a more decided success, for he routed the enemy with the loss of seven hundred
killed and the whole of their camp, which was plundered by the victorious
Musalmáns. Following up this advantage, Hasan appointed Husyún Fyzulla, with
a garrison of fifteen thousand men, to the charge of the city, and nominating Syad
Jalsluddin as his minister, himself with fifty thousand men took the field in
pursuit of the enemy, who had rallied and taken up a position on the Tázghún
river. A desultory and indecisive skirmish at nightfall left the hostile armies camped
opposite to each other.
Next morning, Hasan, having assembled the army, performed the prayers with
great ceremony and all solemnity, and then appointing Yúsuf Kadir to the charge of
his camp went out to the battle. His heralds preceding blew their horns, and
announced his royal titles and high lineage, and as he entered the field called for
a champion from the other side worthy to meet the King. Jagálú Khalkhálú of
Máchin answered the challenge, and came out against him. Both armies en suite
clashed in conflict, and after a hard struggle, with success changing from side to side,
the Khutan army was finally routed with great loss, and driven to retreat at Yángi
Hissár. Hasan now returned triumphant to Káshghar, and celebrated his victory
by public rejoicings, feastings, and largesses to the poor. But finding the infidels
were still in force at Yángi Hissár, he raised an army of ninety thousand men and
sent it, under the command of Ali Arslán, to drive the enemy out of the country.
Ali Arslán and his host found the Khutan and Máchin troops, thirty thousand
men, strongly posted amongst the gravelly ridges of Boesha-sosha, and Ortang
Kará in the vicinity of Yángi Hissár. Several indecisive engagements followed
with more or less encouraging success to the Musalmán arms, and the Káshghar
troops pressed closer around their enemy with each successive skirmish. Finally
Jagálú Khalkhálú, finding he could make no head against the superior numbers of
his opponent, offered a rich reward in gold to any one who should devise a means of
defeating and destroying Ali Arslán, whose noted bravery and impetuosity in fight
had inflicted considerable loss and dispirited his men.
A poor and aged Játlic = Christian priest—at this period the Nestorian
church was numerously represented all over the Káshghar territory, and for
two centuries later the Christians held their own, and flourished side by side
with their brethren of the rival, and subsequently dominant, faith, till their
persecution and suppression by the Muhammadan rulers about the middle of the
fourteenth century—who was in the habit of passing from one camp to the other
came forward as a candidate for the offered reward. The Máchin leader took the
Játlic, from his mean and poverty stricken appearance, to be a hungry vagrant merely
attracted by the value of the offered prize, and was inclined to dismiss him summarily,
but the man's speech impressed him in his favour, and he gave him a hearing.
The Játlic now disclosed his scheme to attack the enemy at daybreak, when
they were less on the alert and more sleepy than at any other time, and assured
Jagálú Khalkhálú of success, provided he fell upon the Musalmáns at the moment
they were engaged in the performance of their prayers, for they then laid aside their arms.
Accordingly, on the 10th Moharram 489 H. = 1096 A.D., at dawn of day, when
the army of Islám was engaged in prayer, the Máchin Commander fell upon the
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